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...enter Libya. Under a 1986 standstill agreement, the fields are still partly the property of the American oil companies, though they have been operated by the Libyan government. Diplomats in Tripoli and Waha workers say negotiations have bogged down, with the American oil companies demanding a controlling stake in the operations in return for investing billions. That prospect is met in the oil fields with a mixed response. "Before 1986 the Americans were the bosses," says Snowdon, who has worked at Waha for decades. "Now that the Libyans have run things themselves, I don't think they'll want...
...that communism never did? Yukos watchers assumed that the Russian oil titan, neutered by massive tax bills and the jailing of its CEO, would end up in the hands of the Russian government. But last week Russia's Energy Minister, Viktor Khristenko, announced that a 20% stake in the new business may be sold to China's state-oil company CNPC...
...detained indefinitely without trial, because the emergency the government declared to square this with European human rights law was invalid, and indefinite detention too extreme. Shami Chakrabarti, director of the human rights organization Liberty, called it "the most important constitutional decision in recent history." Lacking Blunkett's personal stake in this reversal, Clarke may find it easier to manage a nimble recovery - and, perhaps, soften the authoritarian instinct of which Blunkett's Home Office was so often accused...
...response to my questions regarding social meaning, several professors countered with a worst-case scenario of propaganda creation. But I was not asking to be taught a fixed method for incorporating social context into my art. I was only asking for an open discussion of the issues at stake in art-making and its potential broader social consequences. I think that taking time out to explicitly address these issues in the department’s pedagogy could help strengthen the learning environment, whichever direction that may take in the years ahead. While I agree that firm answers may well...
...will continue to opt-in for opting out. I encourage students to continue to push for change while respecting their peers’ rights to opt-out, except in those situations where basic rights are at stake. And when the Faculty meet to decide on whether to approve the opt-out wind power initiative, I encourage them to reject superficial slippery-slope arguments about the demise of the termbill as we know it and embrace opt-options for what they are: creative and democratic means for implementing positive change...